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Friday, April 11, 2008

I confess...

that I am not good at well, baking to be exact. I REALLY REALLY want to be. But, I am not.

I suppose I should clarify, if I am VERY careful, and I follow the recipe EXACTLY, and I set the timer and do not forget about it and go to Walmart... then, I can bake.

HOWEVER,

if I ever try to venture off on my own, or get slightly sidetracked, then I get in to trouble.

BAD!

Okay, so I have been dying for oatmeal cookies. For some reason, I couldn't find my recipe, so I decided to take a chocolate chip cookie recipe and make it into oatmeal cookies.

Well, I didn't do it right.

WHY I didn't just google "oatmeal cookie recipe" I don't know. It seemed fun and adventurous to "make it up."

(I'd like to point out that when it comes to COOKING, I am not bad at making things up. Chuckwagon tacos are my most recent invention, and dang, they were good... But baking is just so stinking precise that I can't do it....)

The cookies were flat as pancakes. They tasted all right, but not great, so I shoved them all together and tried to make one big cookie. It wouldn't bake. It was sad. So I saved the dough, which tasted GREAT to put on ice cream, but they are NOT edible cookies.

THEN the very next day I decided to make banana bread. I forgot the baking soda. I was distracted. If you've never forgotten a levening agent, let me assure you, it is 100% necessary, so try not to forget it. I had to throw my banana-bread-bricks away, they did not taste good.

So, then on Wednesday, I had to make brownies, and I caved and bought a boxed mix. Then I was VERY careful, and promptly burned them. Poop.

I'm taking a break from baking for a while.

BUT, in my defense, I can make baby food that would make Mr. Gerber jealous.

5 comments:

Oh DEAR!If you EVER need ANYTHING baked whilst you're back here for theater camp (or when you're in town for whatever reason) PLEASE call me. I promise not to make unlevened bricks or gobs of oatmeal mess or burned, boxed brownies. I'll save the day. lol